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Question of the Day - Part 4
mare:
--- Quote from: mare on July 24, 2012, 06:38:15 AM ---Yeah I will never ever understand why people don't review what they read. I know the only time I will ever abstain from reviewing, as I've mentioned before, is when the author doesn't respond to their reviews. Especially if they are selective of who they respond to. It takes five seconds to review, even if it's "loved it! Great job!" & it takes two seconds to respond with a "thanks!" seriously one of my biggest pet peeves ever lol I don't care how much I love the story, I'll Be done with it.
As far as endings go, I generally don't have trouble with those because I always have a very clear visual in my head of the ending. The last line sometimes is tough, like Julie said because you want to find the perfect thought to leave your readers with.
Which leads me to this question,
What is your favorite last line that you have written?
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Just wanted to quote myself do you can see tonight's question. I might have gotten lost in all the review talk lol
Sakabelle:
A lot of my longer stories have terrible last lines. That being said, I think I have a good one planned for Running Up That Hill. I have noticed that in my one-shots I tend to book-end my first and last line, either making them exactly the same as or some variation of the first line.
My favourite of these is from Total Request Live, where the story begins with Nick saying, "I hate TRL." and ends with him saying "I love TRL."
Touching on the feedback thing, if I'd written solely for feedback I'd have quit writing ages ago LOL. My old website had like, one comment in the guestbook. But I kept posting stuff and writing because it was fun and because I enjoyed it. Of course getting reviews is nice, and I'm sure some of my work could have a lot more reviews if I begged for them, but I'm not going to do that. To me the feedback isn't worth much if you had to pull teeth to get it. It's much more valuable to me to know that someone clicked into my story, read it and liked it because they actually wanted to, not because I asked them.
Besides, if I wrote for the purpose of getting reviews, you'd see Running Up That Hill updates a lot quicker :P
Rose:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on July 24, 2012, 06:25:25 PM ---To me the feedback isn't worth much if you had to pull teeth to get it. It's much more valuable to me to know that someone clicked into my story, read it and liked it because they actually wanted to, not because I asked them.
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Exactly. I feel like if you're begging for reviews or whoring your story out like crazy, it defeats the purpose. I want to know people are telling me they enjoyed it because they wanted to, not because I begged them.
FrickingKaos:
Yeah I don't see the point in whoring yourself out. I will usually just post something once when I update and that's it.
As for endings, I guess the best one is when I wrote Nick being attacked by sharks and AJ says "at least he swam with the sharks before he died" lol
mare:
Okay since reviews are such a hot topic, how do you all feel about authors who don't respond to reviews? Do you consider it a double standard to confess you enjoy getting reviews but then don't respond to them? If you don't respond, why? Do you only feel certain people are worthy of a reply while others are not?
Like I said, it's a huge pet peeve of mine so just curious to see if it bothers anyone else lol
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